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231
“olive tree boles”:
Ibid., 274.

232
“I cannot print with you”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia, 132.

232
“from west to east”:
Ibid., 137.

234
“approach Kenyon”:
Ibid.

234
“Hogarth concurs in the idea”:
Ibid., 138.

235
“a picturesque little crusading town”:
Lawrence,
Home Letters, 281.

238
Newcombe was not dismayed:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia, 141.

238
“back to Mount Hor”:
Lawrence,
Home Letters, 286.

240
On March 21, Woolley and Lawrence:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia, 143-145.

240
A Circassian working for the Germans:
Ibid., 144.

241
“the only piece of spying”:
Ibid., 147.

241
More interesting still was the amount of information:
Ibid.

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Cairo: 1914-1916

248
“In Constantinople the seizure”:
Randolph Churchill and Gilbert,
Winston Churchill, 1914-1916,
Vol. 3, 192.

248
“As the shadows of the night”:
Churchill,
The World Crisis,
Vol. 1, 227.

250
COMMENCE HOSTILITIES
: Geoffrey Miller, “Turkey Enters the War and British Actions.” December 1999, http://www.gwpda.org/naval/turk mill.htm.

251
“He’s running my entire department”:
Graves,
Lawrence and the Arabs, 63.

251
“I want to talk to an officer”:
Aldington,
Lawrence of Arabia, 124.

252
“as an officer ideally suited”:
Ibid., 126.

253
“Clayton stability”:
Storrs,
Orientations, 179.

254
“a youngster, 2nd Lt. Lawrence”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia, 154.

254
“Keep your eye on Afghanistan”:
Lawrence,
Home Letters, 300.

255
“in the office from morning”:
Ibid., 301.

257
“bottle-washer and office boy”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia, 167.

257
He was well aware of events:
Ibid., 169.

258
“pieced together”:
Mack,
A Prince of Our Disorder, 131.

259
Abdulla’s concern was that the Turkish government:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia, 164-165.

259
One son, Emir Feisal:
Antonius,
The Arab Awakening, 72.

260
“It may be”:
Wilson,
Lawrence, 165.

264
“The assault I regret to say”:
Lawrence,
Home Letters, 721.

264
“You will never understand”:
Ibid., 304.

265
“If I do die”:
Ibid., 718.

267
“To the excellent and well-born”:
Antonius,
The Arab Awakening, 167.

271
“a twenty-minute Parliamentary debate”:
Storrs,
Orientations, 229.

272
“a devout Roman Catholic”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia, 193.

273
“There is nothing so bad or so good”:
Shaw,
Man of Destiny, 87.

274
“every aspect of the Arab question”:
Wilson,
Lawrence, 235.

274
“bravura”:
Ibid., 235.

275
Picot was a master of detail:
Fromkin,
A Peace to End All Peace, 190.

279
It was hoped that a French zone:
Ibid., 192.

280
“the imaginative advocate”:
Lawrence, SP, 38.

281
“I’ve decided to go off alone”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia, 410.

282
“I have not written to you for ever”:
Lawrence,
Letters from T. E. Lawrence to E. T. Leeds, 110.

283
“I’m fed up, and fed up”:
Ibid., 109.

283
The Arab Bulletin was a secret news sheet:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia, 242.

283
The only one of them:
Lawrence,
Letters from T. E. Lawrence to E. T. Leeds, 109.

283
“to put the Grand Duke Nicholas in touch with”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia, 242.

285
The British Force in Egypt and the British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force:
Ibid., 252.

286
“to biff the French out of Syria”:
Knightley and Simpson,
Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 81.

288
“go free on parole”:
Aldington,
Lawrence of Arabia, 149.

289
Lawrence arrived to undergo a difficult interview:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia, 268-269.

289
Although Khalil was “extremely nice”:
Ibid., 272.

290
“about 32 or 33, very keen & energetic”:
Lawrence,
Home Letters, 326.

291
“a German field mission led by Baron Othmar von Stotzingen”:
Antonius,
The Arab Awakening, 191.

292
“pronging playfully at strangers”:
Storrs,
Orientations, 188.

293
“Long before we met”:
Ibid., 221.

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1917: “The Uncrowned King of Arabia”

297
if Clayton “thought”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia, 419.

297
“he wanted Jerusalem as a Christmas present”:
Wavell,
Palestine Campaigns, 96.

299
“an obstinate, narrow-minded”:
Lawrence, SP, 351.

299
“gracious and venerable patriarch”:
Storrs,
Orientations, 213.

300
“as usual without obvious coherence”:
Lawrence, SP, 352.

300
“half-naked”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia, 1079.

300
“in the third little turning to the left”:
Ibid., 432.

302
“no spirit of treachery abroad”:
Lawrence, SP, 353-355.

302
“Many men of sense and ability”:
Arnold Lawrence (ed.),
T. E. Lawrence by His Friends, 115.

302
“idle to pretend”:
Ibid., 117.

305
“You very good man”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia, 441.

309
“a ladder of tribes”:
Lawrence, SP, 367.

309
“tip and run” tactics:
Ibid., 368.

311
It is a tribute to Lawrence’s skill:
Ibid., 367-383.

312
“in a chilled voice”:
Ibid., 387.

312
“a squadron of airplanes”:
Ibid., 388.

313
“his best man present”:
Ibid., 392.

313
“strange flat of yellow mud”:
Ibid., 398.

317
“Out of the darkness”:
Ibid., 407.

317
“a shambles of the group”:
Ibid., 408.

320
“I hope when this nightmare ends”:
Lawrence,
Letters from T. E. Lawrence to E. T. Leeds, 106.

321
“He who gives himself to the possession”:
Lawrence, SP, 11.

325
“African knobkerri”:
Ibid., 429.

325
“on a series of identical steel bridges”:
Ibid., 432.

326
“unfit for active service”:
Ibid., 433.

329
“could outstrip a trotting camel”:
Ibid.

330
“luscious”:
Ibid., 447.

331
“They had lost two men”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia, 450-455.

331
“war, tribes and camels without end”:
Lawrence, SP, 450.

331
“like the mutter of a distant”:
Ibid., 450.

332
“Beware of Abd el Kader”:
Ibid.

333
“held what might well be the world’s record”:
Ibid., 453.

333
“some 40,000 troops of all arms”:
Wavell,
Palestine Campaigns, 117.

333
“dismounted and cleaned up”:
Ibid., 123.

334
“General Allenby’s plan”:
Ibid.

334
“nothing would persuade”:
Lawrence, SP, 462.

334
“steeped in an unfathomable pool”:
Ibid., 464.

335
“I only hope TEL”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia, 455, citing
D. G. Hogarth to his wife, November 11, 1917, Hogarth Papers, St. Antony’s College, Oxford.

336
The fumes from the explosive:
Lawrence, SP, 471.

338
“pointing and staring”:
Ibid., 478.

339
“ran like a rabbit”:
Ibid., 481.

339
“in front of [him]”:
Ibid., 483.

340
“gashing his tongue deeply”:
Ibid., 485.

340
he searched for consolation:
Knightley and Simpson,
Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 263.

341
“an outlaw with a price”:
Lawrence, SP, 493.

341
“a trimmed beard”:
Ibid.

342
“a lame and draggled pair”:
Ibid., 495.

343
“The garrison commander at Deraa”:
Knightley and Simpson,
Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 217.